Once these are done your new mattress is ready for use.
How to make your own mattress.
Cover the foam with a fitted sheet if you don t own a mattress cover.
Making your own mattress has a lot to offer the confident diyer.
Either way inspired by a recent question posed to ask umbra over at grist we ve poked around for some resources and techniques for assembling a fume free place to rest.
Or maybe you re just the type to get into customizing everything.
Then zip the cover closed.
Next put the firm foam into the cover first followed by the memory foam.
And the prices aren t that easy to swallow either.
You can create a mattress that fits your needs perfectly.
Articles on how many toxic chemicals are present in average mattress aren t helping you make your choice either.
It was easy to wash and easy to make.
It s hard to separate the marketing claims from the facts.
Best of all you get to experience the pride that only comes from making something yourself.
For an older child things get both harder and easier.
Making your own mattress could be a good option if you are concerned about sleeping on the factory made chemical sponges known as a conventional mattress.
It would be shockingly easy to knock off most of our competitors mattresses without the markups and create your very own diy mattress.
Why make your own mattress yourself.
So what s your alternative.
How will you.
If you own a box mattress also lay the cover on it.
When my youngest was a baby she spent some time in a little cradle next to our bed and we made her own mattress from layers of pure cotton towels with an organic sheet over them.